Registering device for kinematographs.



'E. A.- IVATTS.

REGISTERING DEVICE FOR KINEMATOGRAPHS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.13, 1910.

' Patented Feb.27,1912.

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E. A. IVATTS.

REGISTERING DEVICE FOR KINEMATOGRAPHS.

APPLICATION FILED B13013, 1910.

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ERNEST ALBERT warms, or IPAR-IS, seamen, AssIGNoR'ro coMPAGNm GENE Ramps PHONOGRAIPHES, crnsmaroeaarnns ET arses-sins :on PRECISION/6F PARIS,

FRANCE.

To all who 221551724131 concern:

Be it liIlOWHthltt I, Euxcs'r rinunn'rlva'r'rs, acitizen of Great Britain, residing at Paris, in the Department of the Seine and Republic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering Devices for Kinematographs. of which the following is a specification. l

Hitherto in kinematographic apparatus for projectingliving pictures several arrangementsor devices have been employed for obtainmg the adjustment of the pictures, these various means being generally based either on the displacement of the lilmin the slide-passage for thepurpose of making the center of the pictures coincide with the center of the exposure or exhibiting opening, or on the displacement ofthe said open- .for

so as to cause its center to' coincide with center of the pictures of the film withdisplacing the latter. in the latter case the purpose of effecting the adjustment, the aperture and objective, rigidly connected together or not, the condenser and the lamp are moved successively and independentl-y in a vertical direction. This latter method of adjustment is long, dit'ricult, and lacking in precision, inasmuch as it is only with great difiiculty that the center of the ing the out image can be made exactly to'coincide with the optical axis of the whole system, this being an essential condition tor-obtaining a satisfactory result when projecting living pictures. l The present invention isfor the purpose of doing away with the inconveniences of this method of adjustment, in which the film is fixed.

' ciple: In order to obtain the adjustment 0t the pictures of kinematographic films in apparatus for projecting pictures, the source of illumination, the condenser, the exposure opening and the lens are moved simultanegether and ously and dependently, the centers of these four parts being immovably connected t'otut-ing the optical axis of the APPEUHUIS.

' I shall now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings showing an apparatus embodying the above mentioned principle and in which: 1 Figure 1 1s a side view. Fig. 2 is a vertica section through the optical axis of the apparatus. Y

Thls apparatus in which are to be found 'Itis based on the follc'nving prinsituated in the same line consti-' REGISTERING DEVICE FQR KIlllEllIAillOGrRAZPHS;

' Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb 1-912 Application filed. December 13, 1910. Serial No. 591064;. A

all the parts employed in the ordinary apparatus is characteriz'edby asuitable arrangement of these said parts so as to permit theuew arrangement of the optical system according to the principle of the invention. For this purpose the base 1 'and the upper plate 2 of the apparatus are connected by pillars 3 along which the optical system,

consi'rxting of the lens 4, the condenser 5, and? the's irce of illumination 6, formed in the present instance by an electric arc lamp-7 provided with the ordinary means for regulating the carbons, can be displaced. The positive connection between these three parts and their simultaneous displacement in a vertical direction are obtained by the following arrangement:.A plate .8 supporting the-'lens i slides between the front pillars 3by means of guides 9. .This plate is bent back twice at right angles, at 10.and' 11, so that the surface 11 slides along the film passage 12 in which the film passes on its" passage from tl e'drum 13. Thissurface 11 1s prov ded in its center with a rectangular opening of dimensions corresponding to those of the pictures of the films to be ad-. justed and the center of which owing to its V construction coincides as exactly as possible with the optical axis of the lens 14:. casing 15 slides on the back pillar 3 and is provided with a prolongation 16' rigidly fastened to the-plate 8. The guides 17 of the mounting 18 of the condenser 5 slide on a. the said p1llar 3 and also-serve as hlnges to enable the mounting-18 of the condenser to be opened! so as to give access to the door ofthe film passage 12 through which the films are passed. Two rods 19 are provided on' this mounting 18 and serve to receive a metallic casing 20 containing the'electrie are 6.

ihe displacement of the optical system 4, 5, 6 is effected by ,means of a. connecting rod 21 pivoted to the casing 15, and by a lever 22 keyed to the end of ashaft 23at the opposite end of which-is keyed a second le- -ver 24 terminating in. a milled fixing stop 25 moving along a guide 26. B-ymoving the milled stop 25ialong the guide 26,'the optical system 4, 5, 6- can be displaced and thus brought rapidly and exactly intothe absolutely-correct position by bringing the open- 1 mg 14 ot the plate 11 before one oi the pie tures of the film situatedin the film pas sage 12.

Having now particularly (1888133366. and asceictameuv the uatutlfe of my inventlon. I cleclare that What I claim" 15 l. A kinematographic apparatus coniprisiiifig a condenser, lens, an apertured screen, means for normally holding said condenser, lens and 'apertured screen in subsiantial alinement, and means for simultaneously shifting said parts-laterally with respect to the film. I

2. A kinematographic apparatus comprising a source light, .a condenser, lens, an'

denser lens, objective and aperturecl screen in substantial alinement, and means for si1nul laueously shifting said parts substantially parallel to that portion of the line of travel of the film which may be intersected by light rays from saicsource.

4. A kinematographic apparatus con1prising a source of light, a condenser lens, an objective, an apertured. screen, and, means for simultaneously displacing all of said parts substantially parallel to that portion of the line of travel of thefiim which may be intersected by light rays from said source.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ERNEST ALBERT IVATTS.

"Witnesses:

HENRY DANTIER, L'UQIEN CRESPING, 

